Welcome to week thirty-three, fellow questers!

Your goal this week is to write a minimum 500 word worldbuilding article about yearly holidays/celebrations in your world.

Your NaNo goal this week is to 2 points for each of the below being included in your novel: a natural disaster, an assassin, a deadly piece of jewelry, and/or live music played by a character.

Wait. What are NaNo goals?
I was just going to tell you. For the rest of October and the month of November, we will be hosting extra goals that will either help your NaNo experience, or make it more...shall we say..interesting.

Can I do them even if I'm not doing NaNo?
For certain! They are quite likely to be able to be applied to normal writing, so help yourself to the extra points.

Remember, in order to receive points for completing the weekly challenge, you MUST declare it by Monday at midnight.

As always...



If this is your first time on one of these quests, you'll need to see the initiation pamphlet.

Also, I would like to remind everyone that any weekly challenge pieces that are posted on the forum will be eligible to be featured in our newsletter. Please post a link in this thread if you would like it to be considered.

If you could write your sign-up post in a similar format to the following, it would be appreciated:
Goal: weekly challenge (or whatever you decide to do)
Timezone: PDT


WRITE! *sets off Roman candles*

Brave questers for the week of November eleventh through eighteenth:

Raven: (PST)
 Personal Goal: Next chapter section of TKB COMPLETE
  NaNo Goal COMPLETE x2
RiahJoy: (MST)
 Personal Goal: Reach 20k words COMPLETE
 NaNo Goal COMPLETE x2
Elly: NaNo Goal (EST) COMPLETE
Lycanis: (PST)
 Personal goal: Write Jay a letter COMPLETE
 Nanogoal COMPLETE x4
Katharina: (CST)
 NaNo goal COMPLETE x2
 Personal goal: Finish step five of fractal with Ruth, Jed, Joshua. COMPLETE
Azlyn (CST)
 NaNo Goal
 Weekly Goal
 Personal Goal: Write Elias's Character Plot Summary
Aratrea: (EST)
 Weekly Goal COMPLETE
 NaNo Goal COMPLETE x3
 Personal Goal: Get to 30,000 Words COMPLETE
Lord Tarin: develop my plot further, work on worldbuilding and timeline of history, and add more detail to my character sketches. (MST) COMPLETE

Personal goal: next chapter section of TKB
NaNo Goal

I won't have access to internet from the 15-18. Can I tell you the monday I get back that I completed my goals or do I have to complete them before I leave?

As long as you complete them by the deadline, you can PM me when you get back, and I'll take your word for it.

Thank you!

Well then here are my goals:

Personal Goal: Reach 20k words
  NaNo Goal

and my timezone is MST

EST
NaNo Goal

(Just checking again - we can use the NaNo goals in regular novels too, right? )

Yupyup!

Personal goal: Write Jay a letter
Nanogoal
PDT

NaNo goal
Personal goal: Finish step five of fractal with Ruth, Jed, Joshua.
Time Zone: CST

Awesome goals! My novel already includes an assassin and a natural disaster.

That also raises some questions as to how to do this, since I haven't actually started my novel yet. Does plotting out those parts count? Or can I include the NaNo goal in my personal goal by making my personal goal that of writing a certain plot summary that would include summarizing these events? (Boy, this is getting confusing.)

Sure; plotting those parts can count.

Okay! In that case...

NaNo Goal
Weekly Goal
Personal Goal: Write Elias's Character Plot Summary This is the plotting I was talking about, that would include writing about those events, so I suppose that is inclusion of the weekly goal? *Has never completely understood how to include the weekly goal*
Timezone: CST

Bother; I forgot to declare my goals last week.

Weekly Goal Accepted
NaNo Goal Accepted
Personal Goal: Get to 30,000 Words

EDIT: Timezone: EST

Personal goals: develop my plot further, work on worldbuilding and timeline of history, and add more detail to my character sketches.
Time zone: MST

I reached above and beyond 20k words!! I also put an assassin in my book, but he was stopped before he could do anything. It still counts right? I also had a girl sing in the book, but she didn't have a musical instrument. Not sure if that one counts either sorry

Well it looks like I made the goals before I had to go. Yay!

I finished one NaNo goal. A natural disaster just occurred.

@Riah - The idea is to write those parts (or plot them, in Azlyn's case) this week, though.

Yep... I wrote all those scenes in my book this week

Oh, okay. Good job.

Thanks!
And another thank you since you helped me reach the goals by WWing with me
I hope to get a natural disaster in my book tomorrow I just realized that face should never go after talking about natural disasters. that's what being a writer does to you... *sigh*

You're welcome, and thank you!

I just realized I never declared my goals.

Oh no! *wonders if poking Juliet would help next time*

Iz gonna have a lot of writing to do today and tomorrow. When will I ever learn to make smaller goals when life is so insanely busy?!

I have the assassin and the deadly piece of jewelry. Going to try to get the others today maybe, and write the letter and send it (though that might not happen til tomorrow).

I doubt it. * bleak * Generally what happens is I am half way through typing it, get called away, and have all my tabs closed by someone while I'm gone, and then I can't remember what I had open, much less what I finished and what I didn't.

Aww.

I completed the NaNo goal, incorporating an earthquake into my writing.

Nice! I've never written an earthquake before... I wonder if there are Vadra quakes...*strolls out mumbling nonsense to self*

Well, I've accomplished my goals for the week, which isn't saying much. But I'm glad I'm getting somewhere. *looks forward to day when goals actually involve writing a book*

I have finished two NaNo goals. I wrote about a sandstorm and later on about Daniel playing on a lyre. I have also finished my personal goal.

Personal and NaNo Goals completed! I have also incorporated a natural disaster, an assassin, and a deadly piece of jewelry into my book.

All goals hereby failed. *Headdesk, headdesk, headdesk* When will I ever learn that I don't have much writing time when life is so busy? I suppose I wanted the extra points when I declared them and they fit into my novel so nicely that I didn't think it through. Faith, you certainly don't have to worry about me catching up to you any time soon! *is consistently going backwards*

Jeremiah, when you poke people to declare goals next week, can you remind me to make a nice small goal?

Finished. *almost forgot again*

Incorporated music and an assassin.

Aww. Yes, I shall try and do that.

Personal goal completed, and nano goal completed, I incorporated the assassin, deadly piece of jewelry, live music, and a natural disaster into my story.

This week is now closed.

Scoreboard.

Week Thirty-Four.